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Picchioni Andrea
A gently sparkling sweet red from Andrea Picchioni's steep Valle Solinga vines: Croatina, Barbera and Uva Rara stopped mid-ferment to keep grape sugar at just 7% alcohol. Chill it for red-fruit desserts, dry pastry or piquant Gorgonzola.
Notes translated from Picchioni's own scheda tecnica and checked against 386 Vivino reviews: strawberry, redcurrant and sour cherry over a moderately sweet, gently fizzy palate at 7% alcohol.
Fragrant and primary, following Picchioni's scheda tecnica: strawberry, redcurrant and visciola sour cherry lifted by a note of aromatic herbs. Vivino drinkers layer blueberry, plum and violet over that red-fruit core. In the glass it is a deep ruby, nearly opaque, with violet flashes.
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Blackcurrant
Blueberry
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Red forest berries
StrawberryModerately sweet, never syrupy: fermentation is interrupted by chilling and filtration at around 7% alcohol, so natural grape sugar stays balanced against fresh Barbera acidity. A gentle autoclave presa di spuma keeps it light and softly fizzy, with the full, easy 'beverino' feel the producer aims for and barely a grip of Croatina tannin.
Clean and moderately persistent, closing on sour cherry; Decantalo's 2024 note finds a surprising mineral edge, in keeping with the sandy, pebbly soils Picchioni farms in the Valle Solinga.
A textbook Sangue di Giuda dell'Oltrepò Pavese DOC from a ten-hectare estate at Canneto Pavese: sweet, gently sparkling and 7%, built for the dessert table rather than the cellar. Vivino's crowd scores it 3.9 across 386 ratings, with the 2019 ranked in the top 10% of its region on the platform; drink it young and well chilled.
Decantalo UK lists the 2024 vintage at £14.40, shipped duty paid. Sweet Oltrepò reds rarely reach UK shelves, so a single live stockist is typical for the style; restocks come in waves.
Scored as a dessert-table specialist: high marks for beginners and red-fruit puddings, deliberately low on cellar potential. The value read uses the £14.40 Decantalo UK price against artisan sweet-red norms.
Sweet, softly fizzy, low tannin and 7% alcohol, the producer's own 'beverino' style: about as unthreatening as Italian red wine gets.
price_aggregate is empty, so judged editorially: £14.40 at Decantalo UK for a hand-harvested, small-estate DOC sweet red undercuts most artisan dessert wines, which start nearer £15 for a 50 cl bottle.
Low alcohol and £14.40 keep it casual (inverse of its cellar score, no price penalty), tempered because the dessert-slot style is not a nightly pour.
A dessert-and-cheese specialist: the sweetness rule confines it to red-fruit puddings, dry pastry and piquant Gorgonzola, where it excels.
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The current release is the 2024, bottled at 7% with fermentation stopped early to keep natural grape sugar. On Vivino the 2021 rates highest at 4.1, and the 2019 sits in the top 10% of wines from its region on the platform.
The 2024 is the current release, picked by hand and stopped mid-ferment at 7% to hold the grape's natural sugar. Drink it chilled and young, ideally by 2028, while the strawberry and sour-cherry fruit is at its most fragrant.
The 2024 is the current release, picked by hand and stopped mid-ferment at 7% to hold the grape's natural sugar. Drink it chilled and young, ideally by 2028, while the strawberry and sour-cherry fruit is at its most fragrant.
Drink-now / hold guidance reflects general style cues for this wine, not a forecast for a specific bottle. Where vintage-level editorial notes exist, they appear above.
Picchioni's scheda points at red-fruit desserts, dry pastry and, for the brave, piquant Gorgonzola. One rule matters most: keep the dish no sweeter than the wine's arrested-fermentation sugar.
Sangue di Giuda's first rule is the sweetness rule: the dish must not out-sweeten the wine. Fior del Vento's arrested-fermentation sugar sits comfortably beside berry and jam desserts, exactly the red-fruit dolci Picchioni's scheda names as the ideal match.
Try with: Trifle · Bakewell tart · jam crostata · More pairings →
Sweet wine against salty, spicy blue cheese is a classic contrast, and Picchioni's scheda itself suggests piquant Gorgonzola for the brave. The wine's sugar cushions the cheese's salt and sting while the fizz scrubs the fat.
Try with: Blue cheese · Gorgonzola piccante · Stilton · More pairings →
Cold autoclave bubbles and Barbera acidity cut through cream and mascarpone, so the wine stays light where a still sweet red would cloy. At 7% it refreshes the palate instead of adding weight.
Try with: Cheesecake · Eton Mess · panna cotta with berries
At 7% with soft Croatina tannin, Fior del Vento will not overpower plain bakes. Picchioni's scheda recommends pasticceria secca, and Lombardy's own panettone works the same way at the Christmas table.
Try with: Panettone · cantucci · almond biscotti · More pairings →
The scheda's own descriptors, fragola, ribes and visciola, bridge straight onto fresh red fruit. Regione Lombardia's tasting guidance for the DOC adds strawberries and peaches, served around 12 C.
Try with: Fresh strawberries · white peaches · red-fruit salad
A sweet 7% frizzante red collapses against seared meat and dry savoury mains, and fierce chilli heat magnifies its sugar. Vivino's generic beef and lamb suggestions track the broad regional style, not this sweet wine: stay in the producer's dessert-and-cheese lane.
Skip with: Ribeye steak · lamb vindaloo · Oysters · Pairing guide →
This is bottled to be drunk young: steel tanks, autoclave fizz and 7% alcohol leave nothing that needs cellar time. Buy on release and drink within three or four years, while the strawberry fruit is loudest.
Best in the years above; holds without falling over either side.
Steel tanks, autoclave fizz and arrested fermentation build a drink-young wine; nothing here asks for more than three or four years.
£14.40 is the lowest tracked offer for the current vintage and we have no signal of further discounting.
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Confidence · HighNotes published by the producer, quoted with attribution.
Confidence · HighOur reading of the price, drawn from the disciplinare, public UK duty rates, and typical landed-cost benchmarks. Not a quote from the producer or a retailer.
Confidence · MediumStyle guidance for this kind of wine at this price point. Treat it as advice, not a forecast for the bottle in your hand.
Confidence · MediumIt is a Sangue di Giuda dell'Oltrepò Pavese DOC: a sweet, gently sparkling red grown in the Valle Solinga at Canneto Pavese, Lombardy. Picchioni interrupts the fermentation by chilling and filtration, so the wine keeps natural grape sugar and lands at about 7% alcohol, with the fizz taken in autoclave.
Moderately sweet rather than syrupy. The producer's scheda describes it as moderately sweet, harmonious and full, and the arrested fermentation leaves clear residual sugar balanced by Barbera acidity and a light fizz. Vivino drinkers score it 3.9 from 386 ratings, citing blueberry, plum and violet notes.
Red-fruit desserts are the classic match: berry trifle, Bakewell tart, jam crostata. Picchioni also recommends dry pastry such as cantucci, and suggests piquant Gorgonzola for a sweet-salty contrast. Keep the dish no sweeter than the wine and serve it chilled.
Croatina and Barbera lead the blend, completed by Uva Rara. The Sangue di Giuda DOC rules require 25-65% each of Croatina and Barbera, with locally grown varieties such as Uva Rara, Ughetta and Pinot Nero allowed up to a combined 45%.
Serve it chilled, at 8-12 C in a tulip glass as the producer advises, and drink it young: this is a steel-and-autoclave wine made for freshness, at its best within three or four years of the vintage.
Decantalo UK lists the 2024 vintage at £14.40 a bottle, £13.32 on offer at the time of writing. Sweet Oltrepò reds are a niche import, so expect a single UK stockist and occasional gaps between restocks rather than wide distribution.
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